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ECOCITY FORUM 2018 “Circular Economy in Smart Cities” is a Multilateral Mega Event, focusing on the dissemination of the collective global knowledge on circular economy issues, as well as on raising public awareness and mobilizing national and regional administration towards interconnectedness of today’s global challenges.

The Conference organization involves assembling a broad spectrum of thinkers and doers in an environment that is both intellectual, as well as experiential, including best practices and models already implemented.

The program content parameters, among others, include opportunities to address climate change, evaluate health benefits and adverse effects under the current situation and potential interventions, strengthen resilience, and work on solutions towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals and feedback on current local or regional plans and learning from best kindred practices from around the world.
Plenary and thematic sessions, workshops, round table meetings, academic and research papers, as well as exhibition of products and services related to urban sustainability and the circular economy will be held during the Conference.
The results of the Thessaloniki Conference will be announced internationally and will be delivered to the highest levels of policy, legislative and executive Bodies and agents.

The proceedings of the Congress include discussion-consultations aimed at shaping priorities in the development and implementation of Circular Economy issues. Also, the ECOCITY CIRCULAR ECONOMY GUIDEBOOK, a manual with performance management and measurement indicators for Healthy Smart Cities, will be the innovative handout of the event.

Aim of the conference is developing the capacity of science, building cooperation between communities in Indonesia and internationally, as well as being a forum for discussion and exchange of opinion for industry players, academics, and government, especially on how we can achieve Sustainable Development Goals using Life Cycle Assessment as a sustainability metrics.

• Life cycle assessment, Life Cycle Inventory, Life Cycle Impact Assessment, Data and database
• Life cycle perspective in environmental management system [SDG: #6, #9, #13]
• Life cycle approach for technology and product development, innovation on renewable resources [SDG #9]
• Life cycle management system on value chain, industrial ecology [SDG #12]
• Circular economy for eradicating poverty, decent work and economic growth [SDG #1, #8, #10]
• Innovation on energy and resource efficiency using life cycle approach [SDG #7, #12]
• Sustainability reporting and labeling for businesses
• Sustainability education [SDG #4]
• Environmental footprint, carbon footprint, water footprint [SDG #6, #7, #13 & #15]
• Sustainable marine life, infrastructure and stewardships [SDG #14]
• Women and sustainability [SDG #5, #17]*

The City of Freiburg, the City of Basel and ICLEI Europe are pleased to invite you to the Local Renewables Conference 2018. The conference will take place on 24-26 October 2018, mainly in Freiburg (Germany) with a study tour to Basel (Switzerland).

Rising global energy needs remain a major challenge, with cities and regions being central players in making energy more secure, clean and sustainable. To transform from a linear to a circular economy there is a growing need to take advantage of renewable resources, including energy.  The conference will address the following key issues:

• How can we ensure that global energy goals, including the 2015 Paris Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals will be reached?
• What is the potential of the circularity of local renewables?
• What transformation is needed in cities for shifting to a circular economy? And how will circular economy shape transformation?
• How can we manage the transformation from a linear to a circular economy?
• What investments are needed and what are the financing options?
• How can relevant stakeholders, such as citizens, public authorities and the private sector be engaged in the urban transformation?

Join leading and learning cities, policy-makers from European and national governments, businesses, research and finance institutions for the 9^th edition of the Local Renewables Series. It will build on the success of previous conferences and will showcase practical and innovative examples of how to reduce energy and resource use, and make ideal use of energy sources and other resources in the region.

In our contemporary high-level society, civil engineering structures are expected to be designed to meet long-term requirements related to structural safety, robustness, serviceability, durability and sustainability. Life-cycle civil engineering provides the knowledge and tools to accommodate for these requirements and relates to the design, inspection, monitoring, assessment, maintenance and rehabilitation of structures and infrastructures taking into account their lifetime perspective.

The last decades there is a growing awareness of the importance of a life-cycle perspective in civil engineering and challenges exist to tackle the contemporary needs, for example related to the long-term prediction of material behaviour and structural response, the assessment of existing structures, inspection and maintenance strategies, life-cycle optimization, etc. Considering these needs, the objective of the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE) is to promote international cooperation in this field of expertise.

Previous editions of the bi-annual IALCCE symposium took place in Varenna (Lake Como, Italy, 2008), Taipei (Taiwan, 2010), Vienna (Austria, 2012), Tokyo (Japan, 2014) and Delft (The Netherlands, 2016). The Sixth International Symposium on Life Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE 2018) will be organized on behalf of IALCCE under the auspices of Ghent University in Ghent (Belgium) on October 28-31, 2018.